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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

Simone de Beauvoir
Lying, Sleep, Dust

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

Simone de Beauvoir
Sleep, Occupation, Charming
Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simone de Beauvoir
Travel, New York, Sleep
Simone de Beauvoir (2000). “America Day by Day”, p.18, Univ of California Press

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

Simone de Beauvoir
Lying, Sleep, Dust

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Simone de Beauvoir
Running, Writing, Sleep
Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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